Lisa Grunwald
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English
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"On a clear December morning in 1937, at the famous gold clock in Grand Central Terminal, Joe Reynolds, a hardworking railroad man from Queens, meets a vibrant young woman who seems mysteriously out of place. Nora Lansing is a Manhattan socialite whose flapper clothing, pearl earrings, and talk of the Roaring Twenties don't seem to match the bleak mood of Depression-era New York. Captivated by Nora from her first electric touch, Joe despairs when...
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Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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What does it take to be happy? How happy is happy enough? And what does “happy” mean, anyway? So asks Sally Farber–wife, mother, daughter, friend, working woman, and lover–in this wise and funny novel about a woman’s search for happiness in some of the right, and a few of the wrong, places.
Summer in the city looms long for Sally Farber when she sends her two daughters off to camp for the first time. Suddenly freed...
Summer in the city looms long for Sally Farber when she sends her two daughters off to camp for the first time. Suddenly freed...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
“Clever and accomplished . . . A little Irving, a little Doctorow, a little Winston Groom—[The Irresistible Henry House] is storytelling for story lovers; realism with an enchanting touch of fairy tale.”—Newsday
“Sweeps along with such page-turning vitality that [Henry’s] story is indeed irresistible. [Grade:] A”—Entertainment Weekly
In this captivating
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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After David, 4, is killed in an accident, his inseparable cousin Sarah, 4, talks to him in heaven. The children's mothers, who are sisters, are pleased, it is as if David were alive. But as the conversations become more realistic and David's hold over Sarah grows, Sarah's mother starts to panic, she is losing her daughter to a ghost.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Dayton, Tennessee. 1925. It is in this sleepy mountain town where Annabel, a devout woman, falls in love with George Craig, a cosmopolitan defense attorney. Annabel's outlook on everything from life to love to the law is shaped by her faith; George sees the law something to bend to his will, and sees a world shaped by science and reason alone. By the end of the year, their marriage, and the private battle waged within it, will come up against the...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Simon, a New York City physicist on the threshold at age thirty of momentous achievements, is a man who can explain the most complex hows and whys of science and of life, but when it comes to the actual process of living, he falters.
7) Summer
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
This will be an extraordindary summer for the Burke family. Lulu a lovingwife, and mother of two daughters has told her family she has cancer.
10) The marriage book: centuries of advice, inspiration, and cautionary tales from Adam & Eve to Zoloft
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive anthology of wisdom and wit about one of life's most complex, intriguing, and personal subjects. When and whom do you marry? How do you keep a spouse content? Do all engaged couples get cold feet? How cold is so cold that you should pivot and flee? Where and how do children fit in? Is infidelity always wrong? In this volume, you won't find a single answer to your questions about marriage; you will find hundreds. Spanning centuries...
